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December 26, 2008

The thing to do is patrol the Gulf of Aden

By Fester:

I remember being sixteen with very little to do on Friday nights.  My friends and I would put on 'AAF, the local hard rock ass-hole DJ station, drive to the beach and walk the Strip.  This was an acceptable way of being part of the undifferentiated masses of a social meta class of kids who were not gang bangers, not rappers and looking for an acceptable amount of trouble.  Not much ever happened, but we were there because everyone else was there too.

It looks like the Gulf of Aden is becoming the new international strip where anyone who wants to claim membership to the international trade system is showing up to see and be seen:

Iran earlier this week announced it was sending a frigate and several support ships to the region for anti-piracy patrols.

Information Dissemination is tracking Russian naval deployments.  Most of Russia's out of area naval capacity is heading to the Levant or the Indian Ocean:

Russian Pacific fleet has dispatched the destroyer RFS Admiral Vinogradov (DDG 572), the salvage tug Fotiy Krylov and the tankers Pechenga and Boris Butoma to the Indian Ocean. Operating in the Atlantic Ocean is the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov escorted by the destroyer RFS Admiral Levchenko (DDG 605), and 2 support ships, currently heading for the Mediterranean Sea. The Russian frigate RFS Neustrashimy (FFG 712) continues to operate against piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Finally, the RFS Pyotr Veliky (BCGN 099), RFS Admiral Chabanenko (DDG 650), the Ivan Bubnov, and the fleet tug SB-406 has departed Cuba and is reportedly due to visit Cape Town from January 9 to 15,

The Chinese are sending a small task force on their longest out of area potential combat deployment to patrol the Gulf of Aden:

An anti-piracy task force of the Chinese navy set sail on Friday for Africa, in the nation’s first potential combat mission beyond its territorial waters in centuries.

The three vessels, decorated with coloured ribbons and flowers, weighed anchor at the Yalong Bay naval base on south China’s tropical Hainan island at 1:50 pm (0550 GMT), heading for Somalia, the Xinhua news agency reported.


Right now the Gulf of Aden is the place for any navy to be, otherwise that navy is not actively perceived as contributing to a global rule set. 



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